which were read out by the lawyers questioning them, and transcribed on screen live and in full. the bbc mews channel showed an on—screen warning, with the presenter breaking into the coverage several times along these lines. this is an extract from your letter to the inquiry dated the 7th of may. you're watching bbc — apologies for the coarse language being used in these text messages. this is a live stream coming in from the uk covid inquiry. so some coarse language is being used. the ripeness of the language surprised heaven's gate trading, who wrote... but chris the dj had this response. for its part, bbc news said... but several viewers told us they thought the on—air apologies and explanations were overdone. here's amanda roy. that strong language was indeed bleeped out when the story was covered on bbc one's evening bulletins. you called ministers useless bleep, morons, bleep, in emails and whatsapps to your professional colleagues. dave briggs was watching that report on the news at ten and asked... although most live viewers did receive the full, unadulterated proceedings of the inquiry, that wasn't the case for everyone. lisa egan describes herself as hard of hearing and uses subtitles to catch the odd words that she can't hear on television. she recorded this video for us. people who are wholly dependent on subtitles, either because they can't hear at all or because their condition affects their ability to process spoken audio, would have no idea that foul language was being used because none of the swear words appeared on the subtitles. at one point, the kc read out a stream of expletives and it was simply subtitled on screen as "dot, dot, dot." now, 60% of the people who died in the first two waves of covid identified themselves as disabled in the 2011 census. so for those subtitles to be exclusionary was not acceptable. it was denying people who depend on subtitles equal access to these court hearings that were about all of our lives in 2020 and 2021. we asked those in charge of bbc subtitling for a response to that point and were told... for many of us consuming news coverage, we may think artificial intelligence is all about gpt and driverless cars, intelligence is all about chatgpt and driverless cars, but this week's ai safety summit, hosted in bletchley park by the prime minister, discussed many different ways in which the technology might affect all of our lives. how, for instance, could new forms of ai change how bbcjournalists gather and distribute news? and what will that mean for its audience? the worries are clear — the rise of ai—generated fake news and the impact that could have on public trust in the media. and there's the fear of newsroom jobs being farmed out to cheaper and quicker computers. but there are potential benefits too, already being put into practice at the bbc — so—called graphical stories being generated from text, inspired by comic books, to attract younger audiences. and text articles being converted into speech and read aloud with a synthetic voice. it's a world most of us are just beginning to get to grips with. so let's talk about the opportunities and the threats that al represents for bbc news with the corporation's director of nations, rhodri talfan davies, who has responsibility for shaping the bbc�*s response to the new technology. he joins us from bristol. thank you, rhodri, for coming on newswatch. can i ask how far the bbc is already using ai in news, and where you might be thinking of bringing it in? so let's separate two things. there's conventional artificial intelligence ai, which is essentially algorithmic. so, for example, if we're doing data journalism, we're looking into huge statistical evidence bases. we might use algorithms to help interpret the data that we've got in front of us. if you go onto the bbc�*s websites, some of the things that we may recommend to you are based on algorithms that throw up recommendations. that's traditional machine learning, traditional artificial intelligence. what we're seeing over the last few months, with the emergence of tools like gpt, is something like chatgpt, is something called generative ai. and the difference is that generative ai can create new material — it can create video, it can create graphics, it can create text. it's trained on a huge amount of data, and it can start to create new material. that's the transformation, the wave of technology that we're seeing coming through at the moment. and that's where we need to think very carefully about how we employ it in ourjournalism. because, at the end of the day, the trust that our audiences have in bbc news is based on humans — human journalists, interrogating and describing the world as they see it. so over the next few months, we'll be doing a whole range of pilots, notjust in journalism, but across the creative effort in the bbc, to think about the opportunities to really supercharge our production processes. if i can give you just one example. bbc verify — really key part of our strategy to help audiences understand really what's going on beneath the surface. generative ai can really help us dig in to stories and accelerate our research. so that's where we're going to focus in terms of the opportunity for the newsroom over the coming months. if you could just spell out a bit more, when you talk about it being of use the way you've described... on the one hand, i can see potentially in number—crunching, you know, lots of data for investigations. that makes sense. but when you talk about bbc verify using it, can you give an example of how they'd use ai? well, one of the things we obviously look out for, a huge area of growth, is the amount of misinformation out there. if you go onto social media, the huge number of false articles, what we call deep fakes. generative ai can help us to identify where those may be being created. it can help us separate what's true and what's false. so it's an ability to rapidly interrogate a whole range of data that might take us in traditional ways, might take us days, can suddenly be done in minutes or hours. so this is an ability to supercharge the way that we interrogate and the way that we get under the skin of the big stories. given the bbc�*s budget pressures, viewers may be thinking, is the bbc going to be skimping on essential fact—checking and real journalism? the bbc has always harnessed new technology to help, if you like, drive and support our creativity. we've done it with online, we did it with mobile over the last 15—20 years. generative ai is another tool that we can use. i do want to stress, though, there are risks. when we think aboutjournalism and we think about the breadth of online material that is unverified, things that may be fake, things that may be false, deliberate misinformation. generative ai, those tools in the hands of other actors is going to make it harder for audiences to discern what is true and what is not true. so we need to be alive to the risks of generative ai whilst we're also looking at how it can support some of our production effort. people might be wondering, are you going to be using this — and you mentioned pilots — as an excuse to cut morejournalists�* jobs? no, i think we've always used new technology to think about how we can improve the stories that we tell. if you think about the emergence of video technologies and hd, you think about online and how that's supported our storytelling, you think about mobile technology — we've always been an innovator and we've always looked for the opportunities for technology to support our creativity. but fundamentally, the bbc is built on human storytelling. speaking of human storytelling, are you going to be considering bringing in virtual news presenters to replace troublesome real people asking difficult questions? i don't think we'll be doing that. i think it's really important, the relationship between our presentation team and our audiences. we are an organisation that is built on the trust that audiences have in us, and part of that is that human personal connection. it will remain right at the heart of ourjournalism. rhodri talfan davies, thank you so much. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news, on tv, radio, online and social media, email newswatch@bbc.co.uk or you can find us on x, formerly known as twitter, @newswatch bbc. you can call us on 0370 010 6676. and do have a look at previous interviews on our website, bbc.co.uk/newswatch that's all from us for now. thank you forjoining us. do you think about getting in touch, and perhaps even coming on the programme. we'll be back to hear more of your thoughts about how the bbc covers the news next week. goodbye. hello. after what has been a very wet week for many, and a very stormy week for some, things do look a little calmerfor the weekend. no, it isn't going to be completely dry or completely settled. there'll still be some rain at times rather windy in the south, but not as windy as it has been. and amidst all of that, some sunshine. on the earlier satellite picture, you can see this stripe of cloud pushing in from the southwest, bringing outbreaks of rain in association with this area of low pressure. the centre of the low tracking eastwards, the strongest winds on the southern flank, which means the very windiest weather will be across parts of france, spain and portugal. for us, yes, it will be blustery in the south, but nothing particularly stormy. this band of rain pushing northwards during saturday morning, becoming slow moving in north wales, the north midlands, parts of northern england. to the south of that, sunny spells and heavy thundery showers with some rather blustery winds, particularly around southern coasts. but the far north of england, and certainly northern ireland and scotland, will see lighter winds, spells of sunshine once any early fog has cleared. just the odd shower, temperatures of 9—13 degrees. during saturday night, we'll still have this band of cloud and showery rain across central parts of the uk. could see some really heavy showers actually developing across the southeast corner. remember, any rain that we do see could bring the risk of further flooding. if you're off to fireworks events on saturday night, there will be some showers around, perhaps by sunday night, bonfire night itself there will be fewer showers. they won't be gone completely, but there won't be as many because this area of low pressure during sunday will be pulling away eastwards. we will start sunday morning, though, with some pretty strong winds. in fact, we could see the winds touching gale force across the channel islands for a time. further north for winds that bit lighter. and through sunday, once we've cleared this early cloud and rain away from eastern england, actually, there should be a decent amount of sunshine around. however, further showers will race in from the west. some of these could be on the heavy side. temperatures around 9—13 degrees at best. now, into the start of the new week, we will briefly see this ridge of high pressure toppling through. so things will turn a little drier. but there midweek we will bring this frontal system in from the west, outbreaks of rain with that, and behind it where things could just turn a little bit chillier by the end of the week. so not as stormy or as turbulent as it has been, but still unsettled. for years, we've talked about how drone deliveries were around the corner. i think one of the main reasons that the idea of drone deliveries is in the public consciousness is because an image went viral —

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